Improvement in slop-jars



UNITED STATES To all whom it mag concern PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLOP-JARS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 222,405, dated December 9, 1879'; application filed November 4, 1879. i

Be it known that I, EDGAR B. JEwETT, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of a New York, have invented certain new 311(11186- ful Improvements on a Slop-Jar; and Ildo hereby declare that the following description of my said invention,taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable'others. skilled inthe art to which. it appertain's-to make and use the same.

This invention has special reference to slop jars; and it consists in the peculiar arrangement of. parts and details of construction, as

. hereinafter first fully set forth and described,

and then pointed out'in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my improved slop-jar. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe'same.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the blank from which the guard for my jarcover is obtained.

The object of my'present invention is the production of a slop-pail the cover of which shall be provided with a guard, said guard being obtained from aheretofore waste piece, as hereinafter fully specified.

In the manufacture of toilet-ware from tin it is customary to make it. in sets. consist- 4 ing of a water-carrier, a bath, and ,a slop jar or pail. The bath is made from a piece of tin twenty inches by twenty eight inches in size,

the two curved pieces B B forming the sides of said bath. In cutting these two pieces there remains a part, A, which has one straight i and one curved edge, it being-a segment of a circle, and which part has heretofore been always considered and treated as waste, adding to the cost of manufacture of the bath the price of removing the waste. This pieceA, Ipropose to-turn to useful account by applying it to the cover 0 of the slop-pail by bending it into circular form and securing it at right angles to the'plane of the cover around its periphery, in which case such pieceAeifeetuallyj serves as a guard to prevent water, when being thrown into the pail, from splashing over the same, care being taken that the said wa ter is poured into the pail from that side opposite said guard A.

By thus making'the jar-cover with a pro jecting rim or guard froma waste piece, as

specified, I am enabled to manufacture andsell this jar at the same price as that asked for jars the covers of which are not so pro vided with a guard, thus giving the public the benefit of my improvement without. any ex pense whatever. p Having thus fully described my improveinents, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent- V A slop-jar the cover of which is provided with a guard made from a segment of a circle. bent into circular form and secured to the 'outeredge of said cover, as stated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ,m y invention I have hereto set my'hand and afixed my seal in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

I Attest: I e MICHAEL J. STARK,

EMMA A. S. DoPP.

EDGAR B. JEwn'rr. LL- 1 I 

